The 50-year-old nurse from Mossley in Tameside vanished without trace nearly two months ago while travelling alone on a "trip of a lifetime" in Ecuador.

CCTV footage has now emerged from South America which reveals a man making repeated withdrawals from Jenny's bank account.

Officers from Greater Manchester Police have flown to Ecuador to help with the inquiry but a forces spokesman said today: "Our officers now believe she is dead."

The equivalent of é2,500 was taken from Jenny's account using her cash card in seven days. The account was closed after exceeding its é1,500 overdraft limit.

Withdrawals

Jenny's card was used 13 times at the Bank of Pichincha in Santo Domingo. The machine is covered by CCTV, which captured the same man, described as black, making repeated withdrawals from the account.

The day after she last contacted her family, five withdrawals were made at the Bank of Pichincha in Banos in the space of just three minutes.

The footage has been described as "not very good" and is being flown to Britain to be enhanced by experts. It has emerged that police in Ecuador had the footage a month ago but were looking at the wrong section of the tape.

Det Supt Kevin Duffy, Det Insp Derek Weaver and Spanish-speaking Det Con Amanda Murray, of Greater Manchester Police, have spent a week in Ecuador helping with the investigation and are expected to arrive back at Manchester Airport tomorrow.

Det Supt Duffy, asked if he thought she was dead, said: "I never give up hope, but having been here for a week, I cannot see any other explanation for her disappearance."